{"id":5088,"date":"2009-02-02T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2009-02-02T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T18:55:53","slug":"cut-calories-boost-your-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/cut-calories-boost-your-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut Calories, Boost Your Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting calories may do more than just trim your waistline.  A new study suggests that cutting calories may <a title=\"memory\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/5-nutrition-tips-for-boosting-brain-power\/\" target=\"_self\">boost your memory<\/a> as well.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/waist.jpg\" alt=\"measuring waist\" width=\"180\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though the number of subjects in the study was not really high, they had really high, statistically significant improvements in their performance on the memory test,&#8221; says Mark P. Mattson, a senior investigator at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The study included 50 women, all of whom were either normal weight or slightly overweight. Twenty of them were assigned to a group that cut calories, 20 upped their intake of unsaturated fatty acids (which some studies suggest may help aging brains), and the remaining 10 stuck with their normal diet.<\/p>\n<p>What they found were two factors that have been linked to an improvement in brain function: some women became more sensitive to insulin and had a drop in the inflammation-associated molecule C-reactive protein.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to double your chances of improving your memory, <a title=\"exercise\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/exercise\/\" target=\"_self\">exercise<\/a>. It appears to exert similar effects on brain function.<\/p>\n<p>There have been studies around for a long time that support other benefits to calorie restriction other than losing weight. Research has found clear signs of reduced cardiovascular disease risk, and even slowing the aging process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting calories may do more than just trim your waistline. A new study suggests that cutting calories may boost your memory as well. &#8220;Even though the number of subjects in the study was not really high, they had really high, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/cut-calories-boost-your-memory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,18],"tags":[1747,2877,31,29],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-fitness","tag-brain-health","tag-calorie-counting","tag-health-news","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5168,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}